TidySongs, “it’s dead simple.” I like that, thanks Jonas! Jonas’s daily tech tip was on the simplicity of TidySongs. Use TidySongs to add iTunes album artwork.
I like things to be easy with my music and seeing the positive reinforcement from users lets us know that TidySongs is helpful. We created TidySongs to be the fast, easy way to tidy up your songs. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions for us. It’s always helpful to hear what users appreciate about current version, but also what you’d like to see from TidySongs in the future.
Use TidySongs to help delete duplicate songs in iTunes. You can choose to keep the song with the higher bitrate or the longer length. You will also decide if you would like duplicates to be identified as name, artist and album, or if just by name and artist.
Then, you choose if you would like duplicates removed from iTunes and placed on your desktop (or the location of your choice.) You also have the option to add the word duplicate to the comments field of the song.
Samuel from Tech I Share told his readers about finding album artwork for iTunes with TidySongs. From Tech I Share: “I never dared to organize my 15 GB music collection by correcting those ID3 tags manually, because 80% of my songs have wrong information. Most of my songs have misspelled song, artist, album information, missing album art or information about artist, wrong album art or information in artist and album fields”
Samuel used TidySongs to find the missing album artwork for iTunes. Now his coverflow shows the songs he would knew he had all along.
@JCruzs3 made a YouTube video to explain how to find iTunes album artwork with TidySongs. He uses TidySongs to find the missing songs in his cover flow.
JCruzs needed TidySongs because a lot of his albums were missing album art that had been imported into his music library from cds and other music sources where the art was not available. He found TidySongs helpful because he used it to automatically update the artwork without having to search for each missing piece of artwork. Now, his coverflow shows the albums that he his library had all along!
Thanks JCruzs3, for telling your readers/viewers about us!
Using the Party Shuffle in iTunes to browse through my songs I hate seeing duplicates. TidySongs allows me to automatically delete iTunes duplicates so that the party shuffle shows the songs in my library.
Deleting duplicates from my iTunes used to be complicated and time consuming, before TidySongs. Now, when TidySongs looks up my duplicates, I set it to identify the duplicate in the comments field of the song. This way I can search for “duplicate” in iTunes and see a list of all my songs that are duplicates. TidySongs removes the songs and my party shuffle looks beautiful!
Use TidySongs to add iTunes Album Art. TidySongs will scan your iTunes library to find missing album art for your music. TidySongs will search for original album art over compilation/best of albums so that you can have the most accurate fixes for your missing album files.
As TidySongs finds all your missing album art you’ll rediscover some of your favorite albums. As I was rediscovering some of my own older album covers I also found I can get them on a bottle of wine?? Wines That Rock is now selling wine, labeled with album art. Currently, there are 3 wines for sale with 3 different albums, but the website says that plans to uncork more wines and more album labels are in the works. The first three: Forty Licks Merlot (Rolling Stones), Woodstock Chardonnay and The Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd) Cabernet Sauvignon.
There are two ways to use TidySongs to remove duplicates from iTunes.
You can choose to identify the duplicates by allowing TidySongs to write “duplicate,” in the comments field. This way when you go into iTunes you will search for “duplicate.” Your iTunes will bring up a list of the songs TidySongs was able to identify.
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You can use TidySongs to remove duplicates from iTunes and place them on your desktop (or the location of your choice). TidySongs is currently set up to move the files to your desktop, but you can choose to move the duplicates wherever you would like.
Dr. Jekell reviewed TidySongs for the blog InToWit.
“TidySongs checks against a database to find duplicates and get the correct album artwork, whether you’ve got the names of your songs right or not. It handles genres by giving you a list of the ones you have, and allowing you to rename and consolidate them so that they might actually be useful.”
iTunes and other programs rely on correct information in your songs to find album art. Not TidySongs. Even if your song names have misspellings or missing info, TidySongs' intelligent database technology will find the matching artwork.
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Dr. Jekell reviewed TidySongs for the blog 
